Imagine the ebullient glory of a vast ceiling mural from an Italian Baroque church brought down to size and hung on your living-room wall. In a series of beautiful and quietly perplexing paintings on ...

The Saint Louis Art Museum has been on a bit of a roll lately, bringing art here that normally would require great expense and travel to view outside the confines of our humble city. On the heels of ...

At the Nevada Museum of Art, in one room of its current "Italian Baroque" paintings exhibit, the Dandini clan is holding a family reunion of sorts. There are the patriarchs, brothers Vincenzo and ...

BRUSSELS — An oft-repeated tagline throughout the promotion for “Michaelina: Baroque’s Leading Lady” is “Mysterious Michaelina”. The first-ever retrospective of the work of Baroque artist Michaelina ...

In the wake of the Council of Trent, as the Church of the Counter-Reformation era was striving to shape new cultural movements able to massively revive popular faith, the city of Rome was turned into ...

The Baroque-era, evident by the name, was a time when the Baroque style of art was at its peak. Baroque styles started in the late 16th century and were famous and growing till the early 18th century.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Of all the things a painter might depict, a mirror is one of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Italy’s pantheon of celebrated artists is very crowded. Still, in the ...

An art history professor in Westchester, New York, has discovered a rare Italian Baroque painting at a local church. Iona College professor Tom Ruggio did a “double take” when he first saw the work at ...